Duncan “Lauch” Faircloth, former Senator from North Carolina

Dates	Title	Representing
1993-1998	Senator	North Carolina

Sponsorship Analysis

Faircloth was a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Faircloth’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Faircloth to other members of the Senate in the 105^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Feb 1993 to Oct 1998, Faircloth missed 68 of 2,255 roll call votes, which is 3.0%. This is worse than the median of 1.9% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Oct 1998. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1993 Feb-Mar	93	1	1.1%	56^th
1993 Apr-Jun	99	3	3.0%	68^th
1993 Jul-Sep	109	2	1.8%	64^th
1993 Oct-Nov	94	2	2.1%	60^th
1994 Jan-Mar	86	3	3.5%	62^nd
1994 Apr-Jun	92	3	3.3%	77^th
1994 Jul-Sep	136	1	0.7%	30^th
1994 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1995 Jan-Mar	125	8	6.4%	90^th
1995 Apr-Jun	171	3	1.8%	55^th
1995 Jul-Sep	184	9	4.9%	88^th
1995 Oct-Dec	133	3	2.3%	87^th
1996 Jan-Mar	60	6	10.0%	87^th
1996 Apr-Jun	122	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Jul-Sep	121	0	0.0%	0^th
1996 Oct-Oct	3	0	0.0%	0^th
1997 Jan-Mar	35	1	2.9%	81^st
1997 Apr-Jun	125	3	2.4%	81^st
1997 Jul-Sep	103	3	2.9%	80^th
1997 Oct-Nov	35	4	11.4%	94^th
1998 Jan-Mar	52	5	9.6%	92^nd
1998 Apr-Jun	131	8	6.1%	89^th
1998 Jul-Sep	109	0	0.0%	0^th
1998 Oct-Oct	22	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Duncan “Lauch” Faircloth [R-NC, 1993-1998] leaves office as Senator from North Carolina

Dec 19, 1998

Elections and Offices

Sen. Duncan “Lauch” Faircloth [R-NC, 1993-1998] takes office as Senator from North Carolina

Jan 05, 1993

Sen. Duncan “Lauch” Faircloth

Elected Positions

Sponsorship Analysis

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Voting Record

Primary Sources

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Elections and Offices